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* doc/lispref/searching.texi (Regexp Special): Tweak wording

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Stefan Monnier 2020-08-14 10:03:50 -04:00
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@ -342,7 +342,7 @@ this choice, the rest of the regexp matches successfully.
long time, if they lead to ambiguous matching. For
example, trying to match the regular expression @samp{\(x+y*\)*a}
against the string @samp{xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxz} could
take hours before it ultimately fails. Emacs must try each way of
take hours before it ultimately fails. Emacs may try each way of
grouping the @samp{x}s before concluding that none of them can work.
In general, avoid expressions that can match the same string in
multiple ways.